Einhorn Quotes & Sayings

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes. — Jim Rohn

I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan. — David Einhorn

In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount. — David Einhorn

When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should. — David Einhorn

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. — Chuck Schumer

Life is a gracious gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it. — David Einhorn

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. — David Einhorn

Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical. — David Einhorn

Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category. — David Einhorn

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home. — Stephen Rodrick

I don't have a lavish lifestyle. — Roger Wang

I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. — David Einhorn

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic. — David Einhorn

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty. — Franz Kafka

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. — David Einhorn

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident. — David Einhorn

I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold
which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls. — David Einhorn

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half. — David Einhorn

But the blind did not go around very much. They sat, and didn't seem to have any conversation, and soon you were aware of leisure gone bad. I had learned something of this during Einhorn's days of dirty mental weather. Or of the soul, not the mind, the sick evil of not even knowing why anything should ail you since you're resigned to accept all conditions. — Saul Bellow

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis. — David Einhorn

One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs. — David Einhorn

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search. — David Einhorn

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. — Emily St. John Mandel

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas. — Edward Einhorn

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is. — David Einhorn

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice. — Edward Einhorn

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism. — David Einhorn

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing. — Justin Zackham

One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to. — Edward Einhorn

I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds. — Robert Scoble

I shook my head. "They want out. Dominic told me they were cuttin' ties with you! — L.A. Casey

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much. — Saul Bellow

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions. — Edward Einhorn

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB. — David Einhorn

As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen. — David Einhorn

Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it. — David Einhorn